Things not visible in Synaptic

[Sandy Harris]

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Sandy Harris <sandyinchina at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just put 10.10 on another machine, am trying to add various things
> I need or want. Synaptic is not showing them. Searches for
> Latex, Texworks, cgoban, pltscheme all fail. These are all things
> I have installed on another 10.10 box.
>
> /etc/apt/sources.list looked about right but I simplified it, which
> did not fix the problem. It now has:
>
> deb http://ftp.sjtu.edu.cn/ubuntu/ maverick-updates main restricted
> universe multiverse
> deb-src http://ftp.sjtu.edu.cn/ubuntu/ maverick-updates main
> restricted universe multiverse

They all install just fine with sudo apt-get install <name>
but even after that Synaptic does not see them.